C. LAZZERI, “Unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny”. The religious politics of Bossuet and of Pascal, RThPh 2001/III, p. 257-276.
This article confronts certain aspects of the politics of Bossuet and of Pascal in relation to their concept of religion. First we examine how they read scripture and the specific theories they draw from sacred texts on the purpose of political power as well as its extension and its mode of governing. In correlation to this, one asks what is the nature of the rights of subjects and how wide is their leeway to disobey political power. Finally, taking the case of the treatment of Protestantism, we show how each of these
two authors uses his concept of the relation between political and ecclesial power.